<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'>Why is any of that a reasonable position to have? What you're proposing is reckless without real, compelling evidence.<br><br>People want X. Why?<div><br></div><div>When making policy changes and spending hundreds of billions of dollars, you need to have a good reason.</div><div><br></div><div><div><span name="x"></span><br><br>-----<br>Mike Hammett<br>Intelligent Computing Solutions<br>http://www.ics-il.com<br><br>Midwest-IX<br>http://www.midwest-ix.com<span name="x"></span><br></div><br><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Baldur Norddahl" <baldur.norddahl@gmail.com><br><b>To: </b>"NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Sunday, May 30, 2021 12:53:25 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections<br><br><div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">søn. 30. maj 2021 15.29 skrev Mike Hammett <<a href="mailto:nanog@ics-il.net" target="_blank">nanog@ics-il.net</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:#000000">What can you do with 100 megs that you can't do with 25 megs and why should anyone care?<br><div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">That is really the wrong question. People want 100 Mbps over 25 Mbps and therefore it becomes a need for rural communities. Doesn't matter that someone believes these people could do with less.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The year is 2021 and perceived good internet is minimum 100 Mbps. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Regards </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Baldur </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:#000000"><div><br></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div>
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